Why Modern Life Feels So Hard (And How Bitcoin Helps) w/ Seb Bunney

From the price of groceries to the way we raise our kids—modern life seems harder than it should be. But what if the root cause is something we rarely question?

This episode is a deep dive with Bitcoin educator Seb Bunney, author of The Hidden Cost of Money, to unpack how our fiat monetary system distorts incentives, accelerates burnout, and erodes the foundation of a healthy society. We explore how Bitcoin offers a potential way out—a more sustainable, transparent system that realigns our values and time horizon.

We dig into:
• Fiat vs Bitcoin
• Time preference and modern burnout
• Inflation gaslighting
• Broken incentives + capital misallocation
• The spiritual side of sound money

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CHAPTERS
00:00 - Intro
01:45 - How broken money makes life harder
03:10 - Why prices should be falling
05:30 - Why inflation is unnatural
08:10 - Incentives, unintended consequences & broken markets
11:00 - Housing shouldn't be a store of value
12:10 - Fiat breaks everything, even the parent-child bond
17:20 - High time preference society
18:45 - Money & meaninglessness
21:50 - The unintended consequences of monetary intervention
31:15 - Money as self-expression
33:10 - We don't live in a free market
37:40 - Fiat ruins everything, even our food
42:20 - CPI is a scam
46:10 - Broken money forces everyone to take risks
52:00 - Most people don’t realize they’re being robbed
54:20 - Will Bitcoin suck up the monetary premium?
56:00 - Seb’s 21-day Bitcoin tweet thread
57:30 - Why explaining Bitcoin well is so hard
59:00 - The myth of a “free market”
01:00:00 - Bitcoin fixes the communication layer of value
01:03:00 - Final thoughts & where to follow Seb

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